Fuel Prices Spike at a Bad Time for US Farmers
After Trump’s tariffs disrupted export markets, rising input costs are compounding the misery for US agriculture.
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It just keeps getting worse for American farmers. They’ve been wrestling with a weak agricultural economy and export markets disrupted by tariffs. Now the Middle East war has choked off fuel and fertilizer shipments, sending prices for the key inputs soaring right as growers are about to start planting.